"Industry standard C++ run-time support is a key requirement for
many teams, particularly those wishing to migrate from legacy
proprietary RTOS environments to eCos." said Daniel Morris,
Sales and Marketing Director at eCosCentric. "For the first time,
eCos deployments can benefit from the full richness of the C++
programming paradigm with a thread-safe run-time library that
includes a Standard Template Library (STL), fully validated and
supported."

The provision of an industry standard C++ run-time library enables
eCosCentric to support the more sophisticated and functionally
complex embedded applications that typify products in the biometric,
industrial control and communication segments. The swift migration
of existing C++ based applications in these segments is critical
to the successful roll-out of cost sensitive, high performance
devices based on eCosPro.

In keeping with the robust and stable eCosPro source base,
the C++ run-time library has been extensively tested within
eCosCentric's automated test farm infrastructure. In addition
to the battery of over 20,000 eCosPro run-time tests, a suite of
tests has been written to ensure coverage of the core elements of
functionality found in the eCosPro C++ library implementation,
namely:- algorithms, bitsets, complex numbers, I/O streams,
I/O manipulation, iterators, lists, maps, memory allocation/new,
strings and vectors. C++ exception handling and Run-Time Type
Information (RTTI) are fully tested in addition to the GNU standard
C++ library test suite.

About eCosPro

eCosPro is a stable, fully tested and supported version of the
eCos open source real-time operating system and RedBoot bootstrap
firmware. The eCosPro Developer's Kit is a distribution of eCosPro
which includes prebuilt eCos host tools and compiler toolchains,
full documentation, an Eclipse-based integrated development
environment to streamline eCos application development and a
libstdc++ implementation for selected architectures.

About eCosCentric

Founded in April 2002, eCosCentric is the leading provider of
eCos and RedBoot support, training, development and consulting
services worldwide. Staffed by the original eCos creators and highly
experienced embedded system and software engineers, eCosCentric
provides complete solutions consisting of run-time systems and
complementary host tools.